Search the Archive

This is a trial search facility for those archive items that have been re-catalogued onto the Modes Compact database. To date only a portion of the archive has been re-catalogued and this process is ongoing. Data last updated 22 July 2024.

There are seven fields on which the search can be performed:

  • ArchiveID: the unique reference number of the item
  • Summary: a short description of the item – this is the best field to search on
  • PersonName: the primary individual  associated with the item (if there is one)
  • PlaceName: the primary place associated with the item (if there is one)
  • StartDate: if dates are available, the first/beginning date
  • EndDate: if dates are available for a period, the end date
  • ArchiveRef: where the item is in the archive (usually a box number)

The search is by free text only, case insensitive. Blank fields are omitted from the results.

If you require further details about any item(s) please contact us including details of the ArchiveID and ArchiveRef value(s) in your message.

Total Records Found: 4227, showing 10 per page
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1894
Summary List of orchards on Chagford tithe map of 1841
ArchiveRef Box 54
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1893
PlaceName Padley Common
ArchiveRef Box 54
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1892
Summary Wayside Crosses in the District Bordering the East of Dartmoor. Read at Teignmouth , July 1874 with black and white illustrations
PlaceName Stumpy Cross
ArchiveRef Box 53
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1891
Summary Rude Stone Remains situate [sic] on the Easterly Side of Dartmoor: Unpublished article read at the meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain 30, July 1873
ArchiveRef Box 53
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1973
Summary contractor licence for ordnance survey data for Dartmoor Trust leat project
StartDate 9.6.2003
ArchiveRef Box 55
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1971
Summary minutes of meeting CLHS Dartmoor Trust parish leats Chagford Leats Project
StartDate 18.11.2004
EndDate 23.6.2005
ArchiveRef Box 55
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1968
Summary re Dartmoor leat project by Wesley, Ian, Pymm, Richard & Newman, Perran
StartDate 1.6.2005
ArchiveRef Box 55
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1965
Summary blank forms re Dartmoor leat project
ArchiveRef Box 55
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1964
Summary correspondence between Baker, Christine from Earle, John and Rhodes, Jean re Dartmoor Leat Project
StartDate 7.10.2005
ArchiveRef Box 55
ArchiveID CHALH:2018.1951
Summary Article written by Mrs Lucy Yardley on Our Changing Countryside, Chagford Fifty years ago
ArchiveRef box 54